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Nicholas Pooran has become West Indies’ new sixer king in T20I cricket. He achieved this feat in the 40th match of the T20 World Cup 2024 league stage against Afghanistan by hitting 8 towering sixes in a row. With the help of these 8 sixes, he has broken the great record of Chris Gayle. Nicholas Pooran has now become the batsman with 128 sixes for West Indies in the shortest format of cricket. In this he has beaten Chris Gayle who hit 124 sixes in his T20I career. Puran meanwhile played an innings of 98 runs, missing the century by just 2 runs.
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A total of three batsmen have so far hit 100 sixes in T20I cricket for West Indies, including Nicholas Pooran and Chris Gayle and Evin Lewis.
T20I Batsman with most sixes for West Indies in 2017-
128 – Nicholas Pooran
124 – Chris Gayle
111 – Evin Lewis
99 – Kieron Pollard
90 – Rowman Powell
WI vs AFG: Nicholas Pooran breaks heart, misses century by just 2 runs: runs out for 98
Talking about the match, after losing the toss, the West Indies team came to bat first and scored 218 runs in the allotted 20 overs. The T20 World Cup This is the highest score of 2024 so far. Nicholas Pooran, who played an innings of 98 runs, played the biggest role in helping West Indies reach this score. He was run out trying to score two runs in the last over.
Puran, who was in charge at number-3, came into bat in the second over of the innings. He first destroyed the Afghan bowlers along with Johnson Charles. Both scored 92 runs in the first 6 overs which was the highest score in T20. World Cup This is the highest Powerplay score in the history of Charles was then dismissed for a personal score of 43, but Puran held on at the other end till the end.